<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Graeme Geldenhuys <<a href="mailto:mailinglists@geldenhuys.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mailinglists@geldenhuys.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">News just in.... M$ has bought GitHub.<br>
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What a sad day it is. It seems that one day the whole Internet will be<br>
owned and run my four companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook.<br>
I guess I'll be doing what the Free Pascal project has done all along...<br>
Host my own repositories and bug tracker. Less sh*t and in full control<br>
or my work.<br>
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I've had plans to move many of my projects off SourceForge to GitHub<br>
because of SourceForge's performance problems and frequent outages. Now<br>
that plan will NOT happen and I'll most likely start hosting my own<br>
public repositories instead.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or you can move to GitLab, which offers similar features in many ways.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A big advantage is also that it's open-source, so instead of creating your project on <a href="http://gitlab.com">gitlab.com</a>, you can host your own GitLab instance. Like Debian is doing with <a href="http://salsa.debian.org">salsa.debian.org</a> . There are Docker images with ready GitLab and dependencies, to make it easy.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Personally, I'm "cautiously not panicking" :) I'll continue to use a mix of GitHub and GitLab (with most public stuff on GitHub). Microsoft today is doing open-source, working with Linux... It's no longer the aggressive M$ from "Ballmer era" and earlier. Maybe things will be OK (and if not, moving is easy :) ).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto">Michalis</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote></div></div></div>